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Fashion Culture: Styled for Survival: How Music and Fashion Converge

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Africa's Fashion Diaspora installation view Music and fashion have inspired each other through the ages, but how has that relationship aided in the preservation of culture and the development of identity? How have music and fashion worked in tandem as tools for resistance in systems of oppression? This dive into the intentional connections between sound […]

Fashion Culture: Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence, and Culture

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Cover of Black in Fashion. Courtesy of WWD. Tonya Blazio-Licorish, archives editor with WWD and co-author of Black in Fashion, present and host a panel discussion on the book, a celebration of Black voices in fashion as captured by Women's Wear Daily contributors and photographers since the publication's inception in 1910. WWD is showcased here […]

Fashion Culture: Objects of Wonder for ‘Person Place Thing’

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Comme des Garçons, dress printed with Archimboldo's Vertumnus, spring 2018, Japan. Gift of Nordstrom, 2021.33.5. Join Randy Cohen and Dr. Colleen Hill in an engaging conversation about the exhibition Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities. Cohen's podcast Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are most captivating when they […]

Fashion Culture: All That Glitters … Conservation and Sustainability of Fashion Collections

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Wedding reception qipao from Romance Bridal Shop in San Jose, CA, 1994. The FTS Graduate Study Collection. In connection to the exhibition All That Glitters … , The Museum at FIT and the master's-level Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program host a panel discussion on the conservation of dress collections, exploring how […]

Fashion Culture: Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Cover of Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing. Courtesy of MIT Press. Join author and cultural historian Elizabeth L. Block and The Museum at FIT's Digital Media and Strategic Initiatives Manager Tamsen Young as they discuss Block's latest book, Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing, a riveting and diverse history of […]